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How Restaurants Can Take Advantage of the Voice Search Trend

Modern Restaurant Management

The number of consumers that start their purchase journey using a search engine is growing. For example, a study by Power Reviews in 2018 found that over 70 percent of consumers start their purchase journey on Amazon or via search engines. Importantly, voice search is becoming an increasingly popular way for consumers to find the information they need, quickly and often when on the go via search engines.

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How to Manage Your Restaurant Labor Cost Percentage

7 Shifts

Before restaurants can record a profit, they need to take several expenses into account—inventory, kitchen equipment, building utilities, and of course, labor. As the demand for a higher minimum wage continues to grow on a state and a federal level, restaurant owners and managers are understandably paying more attention to their restaurant’s labor cost percentage.

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Food Safety Never Takes a Holiday 

Modern Restaurant Management

With the season of food and Thanksgiving when holiday food is at the forefront, what are defined standards and procedures that restaurants should keep top-of-mind to set the expectations regarding food handling and preparation during the holiday rush? From quick-service and fast casual restaurants tasked with accommodating busy holiday shoppers, to dining establishments on a mission to wow guests with an impressive holiday meal or catering order, many restaurants will experience a holiday rush t

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How Cloud Kitchen Restaurant Trend Impacts $200B Online Food Delivery Space

Modern Restaurant Management

Cloud Kitchen / Virtual Kitchen / Ghost Kitchen – they are all referred to by different names, but the concept is very evident in the names. Every restaurant has a back of house and a front of house. Cloud Kitchens are restaurants with no front of house. The evolution of cloud kitchens has been driven by consumer demand. Consumer demand has majorly fueled food delivery, and traditional restaurants which used to see barely five-to-ten percent of their total revenue being driven by online or

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How to Boost Your Restaurant Website’s SEO

Modern Restaurant Management

For most modern consumers, the first taste of a restaurant happens virtually. They find restaurants via Google or Yahoo or Yelp where they peruse the reviews and vainly search for menus. To extend the reach of your restaurant in the real world, you’ve got to extend the reach of your restaurant online. The key to success is ensuring your restaurant’s website is discoverable not only to humans but to search spiders crawling the web.

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Four Communications Solutions to Fast-Food Turnover

Modern Restaurant Management

Panera bread loses about 100 percent of its workers every year, and according to Panera CFO Michael Bufano , that’s not unusual for the fast food industry. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the turnover rate for the restaurant sector hovers around 82 percent, industry estimates are higher, with some restaurant chains experiencing a rate of 130 percent.

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Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Agreements: Protecting Your Restaurant Against Defamation

Modern Restaurant Management

Technology has changed the landscape of the employer/employee relationship. Social media, text messaging, online training and the like have all made the interaction between employer and employee easier and more streamlined. The technological evolution is not, however, without its drawbacks. Websites such as GlassDoor, Great Place to Work and Indeed provide a breeding ground for disgruntled employees to anonymously vent about perceived slights and alleged misbehavior by their former employers.

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MRM Franchise Feed: CPK’s Franchise Momentum and Rex’s Rebuilds

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. CPK Brings on Franchise Veteran. California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) today announced the appointment of Giorgio Minardi as Executive Vice President of Global Development & Franchise Operations.

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[Study] Top 10 Most-Engaged States in America

7 Shifts

At 7shifts, it's a goal of ours to improve employee retention for restaurants, and for me, it’s more than just something we evangelize to restaurant clients—it’s something I embody in my work as a leader, and something our whole team strives toward every day. By providing tools to restaurants like our Engage dashboard , which quantifies team engagement with statistics about lates, picked up shifts, no shows, and more, managers can be proactive in employee retention and engagement.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features if cooking is becoming a thing of the past, Drinksgiving, the state of snacking and the impact of sensory marketing. Positive Traffic Growth. It is undeniable that the restaurant industry is experiencing a significant slowdown in same-store sales growth since the second quarter of the year, however in October, the industry was able to post its second consecutive month of small positive same-store sales gr

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Tamper-Proof Delivery and TacoTuesday.com

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features Aramark, Starbucks, KFC and FRCH NELSON, OpenTable and Capital One, Toast, MOD Pizza, Coolgreens, Virtual Kitchen, Punchh, The OC Restaurant Association, NCR Corporation and Shake Shack. The Best Chefs in the U.S. Aramark is hosting an intense culinary competition to determine its best U.S.-based chefs. With knives sharpened, toques neatly packed and bragging rights on the line, Aramark’s top chefs from across the country will descend upon its Global